Sentences with phrase «reducing antenatal visits»

Original analysis of the WHOACT concluded that reducing antenatal visits of low risk women from eight to four was not detrimental to their or their babies» health and could cut costs.

However, in light of the 2010 Cochrane review, which suggested that reduced antenatal visits was in fact detrimental to health, the WHOACT data was reanalyzed by an international group of researchers.

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Other community - based intervention packages that may reduce neonatal mortality include home - based neonatal care and treatment and education of mothers and antenatal and postnatal visits (low - certainty evidence).

The review found that community mobilisation and antenatal and postnatal home visits decrease neonatal mortality (high - certainty evidence) and may reduce maternal mortality (low - certainty evidence).

Once the data was adjusted for maternal risk (such as smoking, age, education) the group found that there was an increased risk of fetal death for the women who had reduced numbers of antenatal visits.

Second, fewer women visited the clinic for antenatal care during the recruitment period than expected, resulting in fewer than expected participants, hence the power of the study to detect differences in characteristics between smokers and non-smokers was reduced — the study only had adequate power to detect differences of about 23 % between groups.